Industrial factories are likely to become the first major market for robots at scale, according to NXP chief executive Rafael Sotomayor, who said manufacturers want stable systems, dependable performance, and clear financial returns. This view suggests that the earliest gains from robotics may come in places where efficiency improvements are easiest to measure.

SambaNova used a Computex 2026 session on June 4 to make its most public case yet that the GPU-only approach to AI inference is hitting a fundamental wall — and to demonstrate, live on stage, an alternative architecture it calls disaggregated inference running in a production data center.

When Jensen Huang was asked in Taipei about Samsung Electronics’ recent labor dispute, the Nvidia chief executive offered a characteristically direct response.

Huawei has formally introduced its “Tau Law,” proposing a shift from traditional process-node scaling to “time scaling,” a model aimed at improving chip performance through optimisation across components, circuits, chips, and systems, even under mature process technologies.